week, the time has come for a mid-year (OK, early May) review of current standings on the gaffe hit parade.
consistency at the highest level. Last week's gaffe came in two stages.
In the first he reiterated that members of the priesthood should be allowed to marry because "priests, like the rest of us, has long argued that all human beings have penises. It's been one of the defining aspects of his parliamentary career, along with the gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth." In this case, a gaffe is when a politician accidentally thinks all women have penises.
The next step, of course, was to repeat that Julia Gillard was "deliberately barren". If women, "like the rest of us", wake up with a horn at four in the morning, how in God's name are they ever going to be able to have children? From personal experience, I can in a film in which Danny DeVito was meant to be his twin, so it whack.
Heffernan is back among the gaffes, yes - but he still has a lot of work to do before he can claim back top spot.
Still the king. OK, he has been keeping a low profile of late, but so what?
The next comment linking sexual assault to methods of marinating lamb shanks can surely only be a few months away.
It has been a disappointing 12 months for the former king. Sure, we had "the Google" a few months ago, in which Bush boldly took the definite article where no definite article had ever gone before, the 2004 presidential election, and the Blair comment wasn't really a gaffe so much as a conversation about jumpers.
Big difference.
Has done nothing. Needs to lift his game.
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